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DATESY

by Pat Mundus
Photographs by Peter Brauné
Boatbuilder Donn Costanzo builds a pocket cruiser named DATESY using Harry Bryan’s Katie design.

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Concordia Yawls

by Maynard Bray
Waldo Howland broke records between 1950 and 1966 when he imported and sold almost 100 brand-new, German-built Concordia yawls.

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THORA and INVERNESS

by Jay Panetta
THORA and INVERNESS sail together where Cheryle St. Onge and Vince Todd built a life around restoring and actively sailing these yachts.

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Maine’s Iconic Sardine Carriers

by Randall Peffer
It was one of those phone calls that you never forget. My wife and I were on a late-summer cruise in our schooner, SARAH ABBOT, anchored at Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts....

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Launchings: Mar/Apr 2026

Edited by Christopher Cunningham
Boat Launchings is dedicated to sharing recently launched or relaunched wooden boats built or restored by our readers.

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HERITAGE (ex-QUARK)

by Maynard Bray
Launched as QUARK renamed HERITAGE, she had become the flagship of George Floyd’s Apalachicola Maritime Museum.

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Launchings: May/June 2026

Edited by Christopher Cunningham
Boat Launchings is dedicated to sharing recently launched or relaunched wooden boats built or restored by WoodenBoat readers.

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Reviving ADVENTURESS

by Jasmine Thomas
Jasmine Thomas of WoodenBoat restores and relaunches a Sparkman & Stephens–designed Gulfstream 30 sloop of 1959.

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Tom Cunliffe

by Nic Compton
Tom Cunliffe has written 30 books ranging from histories to sailing manuals and cruising pilots, magazine articles, and documentaries.

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ROSE OF SHARON

by Maynard Bray
ROSE OF SHARON is a 1930 W. Starling Burgess designed schooner and currently sits in Los Angeles and is among the last schooners built to W. Starling Burgess designs.

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Swan Point Garvey

by Russ Manheimer
The Swan Point Garvey is the culmination of Russ Manheimer’s years of dreaming about the perfect boat for day excursions in the coastal marshes of New Jersey. Doug Hylan designed the boat, and his shop, Hylan & Brown Boatbuilders of Brooklin, Maine, built it in time for an early June launching.

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Rescue Renovation

by Todd Allen Schwede
Launched in 1924, the schooner BAGHEERA was saved from oblivion in the early 1980s. Today, she is the centerpiece of a charter business in Portland, Maine.

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Shad Boats

by Paul Molyneaux
The North Carolina shad boat is emblematic of the post-Civil War–era South. It embodies innumerable aspects of this period of its region’s historical resource use and development patterns. The changes...

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Sailing Between the Trees

Text and photographs by Nic Compton
Four camp-cruisers, Goat Island Skiff EPIK, Silmaril TRUK 2, the Grand Silmaril VITAE BREVIS, and the Silmaril KERELEN 4.

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MARGARET PEARL

by Nigel Sharp
The 56′ MARGARET PEARL commercial crayfishing vessel designed and built in the Australian island state of Tasmania.

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